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Mike Millman

Cleaning Artifacts

So we’re all done with our fieldwork now, and we have bags upon bags of dirty pot shards, rusty nails, brick,  and glass that all need to be cleaned before we catalog them and make any conclusions from our sites. And while working in the field is fun when you find new artifacts, cleaning them [...]

Our impromtu guest lecturer

On Friday, June 18th, Duane Quates, an MSU graduate student and archaeologist at the Fort Drum Cultural Resource Program, who was in from New York talked to all of us during lunch. He gave us a little taste of what his job involves as a civilian employed by the army as a historical archaeologist. His [...]

An In-tro from the In-tern.

This is a wine bottle. I am, however, Mike Millman the summer 2010 Campus Archaeology intern and member of the field crew this summer. Since graduating this May with my B.S. in Anthropology I found the need to get a bit of field research experience under my belt so as to be more prepared for [...]